Non-refillable bottle and cutter.



D.1. FLEIVIING.

NoN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE AND CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED )ULY 22.1914.

Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

yIlllII//llll/lIl/lllllll/IILVIII Il 1 l unire DAVID J. FLEMING, or* NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. y

NoN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE AND GUTTER.

Speccaton of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 31, 19H5,

Application led July 22, 1914. Serial No. 852,454.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID J. FLDMING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Non-Rellable Bottles and Cutters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in non-refillable bottles and devices for cutting the neck thereof and consists in the provision of a neck having a double beading about the circumference thereof and intermediate which is an indenture cut in the wall of the neck adapted to be engaged by a cutting wheel mounted upon a ring which is clamped about the neck between vthe beading and forming means, as the device is turned, to cut the glass, allowing the upper portion of the neck to be readily severed.

More specifically, the present invention consists of a permanent cutter, made up of two semi-circular ring sections which are fastened together at their ends, after being passed about the neck of a bottle, one of the ysections carrying a glass cutting wheel and the other a handle, each bottle to be equipped with a similar device and which is destroyed after the bottle hasL been cut.

My invention comprises various details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

l illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a central vertical sectional View through the device and neck of a bottle. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail in elevation of a portion of the neck, and Fig. 4L is an enlarged detail of the device.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a bottle having a neck B with two annular beads C projecting therefrom and spaced apart;4 A portion of the neck of the `bottle intermediate the beads has a short transverse indenture D formed therein.

E and F designate semi-circular rim sections, the former of which is provided with a handle projecting from the central portion of the section and the section F is permanently pivoted by means of a pin H to one'end of the section E, while its other end is provided with a shoulder F', and is similar in construction to a shouldered end E of the section E. The two overlapping free ends of the sections E and F areprovided with registering apertures O for the reception of a pin N. rlhe section F, at its central portion, is provided with a recess in which a cutting wheel M is mounted and which is journaled upon apin R passing through the walls of 'the recess. A portion of said cutting wheel projects a suiicient distance within the inner marginal edges of the sections E and F to engage and ill the o indenture G formed in the outer circumference ofthe neck.

When the device is adjusted in place upon the bottle and when it is desired to sever the neck of the bottle, the operator by turning upon the handle may cause the wheel to cut through one end of the indenture and about the circumference of the wheel until a complete revolution has been imparted to the handle, thus causing the neck to be partially cut through by the steel wheel and thus weakening the neck so that, by a slight tap upon the end of the neck, it may be severed along the line that has been cut. Ilfhe cork T is adapted to be inserted in the bottle and a iiller S of litharge or any other material kplaced within `the neck to fill up the space which may be covered at its top with a closure W of any suitable kind, the litharge serving, when hard, to reinforce and render the nose moreV rigid.

By the lprovision of a device embodying the features of my invention, it will be noted that a simple and efficient bottle is provided with cutting device attached thereto, so arranged that a clean cut may be made without particles of glass getting into the interior of the bottle after the cork has been removed.

What claim to be new is In combination with a bottle having an annular groove in the neck thereof, the bottom wall of the groove having an indenture,

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a ring` made up of two eompleinental semseated in said recess and adapted to be norciroular sections pivoted together at oorremadly held by the rings in said indenture. i0

sponding ends, said sections adapted to t In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my in said annular groove and engage the 0psignature in the presence of two witnesses. positie walls thereof and their other ends DAVID J. FLEMING. apertured for a fastening means, a handle Witnesses:

upon one sectionY and the other section pro- CECIL K. NOEL,

vided with a recess, and a cutting Wheel NORVELL W. DENINE.

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' Washington, D. C. 

